The project aimed to improve the VET system in the TASC sector through an innovative, highly replicable VET model. It focuses on improving the skills of professionals managing TASC Funding and Tenders, ensuring high standards of quality, innovation, multidisciplinarity, and market awareness. Specifically, the project aimed to define the role of TASC managers, the required characteristics, their added value, and the best way to train them and enable them to successfully operate in the highly complex work environment in which they operate. Furthermore, the project aimed to develop a VET program that meets current market needs, fills existing gaps, and enhances the professional profile nationally and internationally, while also including and valorising TASC members through inclusive and sustainable labour market access.
The idea of creating a VET model for High and Special Complexity Teams (TASC, HSC in English) stems from a need identified by the lead partner in over 30 years of field experience: the lack of a professional capable of truly managing TASCs, making their operations efficient, empowering each member, and providing real added value to the Client/Client. Several universities and institutes in the countries involved in the project offer courses for Disability or Diversity Managers, aimed at training professionals capable of managing individual differences or managing differences within a team. These professionals are specifically responsible for supporting the autonomy of individuals with disabilities in various spheres of life within the company, promoting inclusion in the workplace. In the reference contexts, however, these initiatives almost exclusively concern people with physical disabilities and chronic diseases, with regard to accessibility or inclusion. Hence the partners' desire to create a VET model that trains TASC Managers in their managerial skills and allows them to be truly recognized in the increasingly broad and popular target market.